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River Monitoring Stations in Monmouthshire

Wales • 12 monitoring stations across 7 rivers
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Total stations

Rainfall across south-west England and south Wales, year by year

Monmouthshire sits in the Met Office's south-west England and south Wales area. Each bar is one year's total; the dark line is the ten-year average, which is what a trend looks like once single wet and dry years are smoothed out; the dashed line is the 1991–2020 average of 1,277 mm. 2025 brought 1,292 mm, close to that. The wettest year here since 1996 was 2000 (1,619 mm), the driest 2003 (959 mm).

south-west England and south Wales: yearly rainfall from 1996 to 2025, wettest 2000 at 1,619 mm, driest 2003 at 959 mm1996: 1,098 mm1997: 1,195 mm1998: 1,488 mm1999: 1,419 mm2000: 1,619 mm2001: 1,173 mm2002: 1,479 mm2003: 959 mm2004: 1,238 mm2005: 1,104 mm2006: 1,193 mm2007: 1,319 mm2008: 1,400 mm2009: 1,341 mm2010: 995 mm2011: 1,069 mm2012: 1,566 mm2013: 1,223 mm2014: 1,416 mm2015: 1,288 mm2016: 1,152 mm2017: 1,185 mm2018: 1,245 mm2019: 1,391 mm2020: 1,488 mm2021: 1,276 mm2022: 1,131 mm2023: 1,535 mm2024: 1,480 mm2025: 1,292 mm1,277 mm199620102025

Rainfall over a whole region, not a measurement in Monmouthshire itself, and a wet year is not the same thing as a flood: what floods a river is how much falls at once and how wet the ground already was. Average rainfall: HadUK-Grid v1.3.2, Met Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Is it getting worse in Monmouthshire?

Year by year, each figure divided by what changed about the measuring — the gauge fleet, the flood areas on the register, the overflows monitored.

Sewage spills per overflow

Monmouthshire, Environment Agency annual returns, 2021–2025

2021: 54.0 spills. 2025: 56.8 spills — 5.1% higher. That is two years compared, not a trend: the years in between jump about more than the difference between these two.

Sewage spills per overflow: one bar per year from 2021 to 2025, 54.0 spills at the start and 56.8 spills at the end, against a long-run average of 71.9 spills. The line is the rolling average.2021: 54.0 spills — 108 spills from 2 monitored overflows2022: 62.5 spills — 125 spills from 2 monitored overflows2023: 102.5 spills — 205 spills from 2 monitored overflows2024: 83.8 spills — 335 spills from 4 monitored overflows2025: 56.8 spills — 227 spills from 4 monitored overflows71.9 spills20212022202320242025

The raw count went from 108 to 227 spills between 2021 and 2025, while the monitored overflows went from 2 to 4 — which is what the chart divides by.

Only five years exist, so this is a comparison and not a trend. The number of monitored overflows grew across them, which is why the figure is per overflow. Spills also track the weather: 2022 was a drought summer, and it is one of only five years here, so it pulls the comparison about on its own.

See all four across the whole UK, and how to read them

Rebuilt on 26 October 2026, from data banked up to the end of 2026. Only whole calendar years are counted, so 2026 will appear here once it has finished. The rebuild runs weekly.

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